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who, by the beauty of their recitation, have enlighted our hearts and have managed
to make us feel its profound effect in our very souls. These recordings are
mostly directly recorded from renowned mosques in Egypt.

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Qalun, al-Duri etc. We did our best to identify the readings in each recitation
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Early Qur'anic Manuscripts, unlike
the modern printed editions, rarely contain information
of the Qira'at in which they were written. Deciphering the Qira'at in the Qur'anic
Manuscripts is a recent endeavour and a very tedious task. Scholars
like Nabia Abbott had only mentioned about Qira'at in the manuscripts in a very
cursory way. Recently, in-depth studies have been undertaken to decipher the
Qira'at in the Qur'anic Manuscripts by Dr. Yasin
Dutton of University of Edinburgh. He has been looking into various Qur'anic
Manuscripts to understand the purpose of using various coloured dots
in the writing of the Qur'an and studying the consonantal structure (where dotting
is nearly absent as in early Qur'ans written in Hijazi or Ma'il
script) to find out the Qira'at in which the Qur'an manuscript was written.
Here are a few examples of the manuscripts in which the Qira'at has been identified.

This study is based on 1st century Qur'anic manuscript "Arabe
328a" in Bibliothèque Nationale,
Paris, written in Hijazi (or Ma'il) script. This manuscript
has enough material to be able to ascertain the reading it represents. This
manuscript is almost devoid of dotting and hence the consonantal structure
is used to determine the Qira'at and it was found to be that of Ibn `Amir
(d. 118 / 736) - one of the reading later to be declared indisputably mutawatir
in Ibn Mujahid (d. 324 / 926). This study is first of its kind on early
Qur'anic manuscripts.

This two-part detailed study is done on the Qur'anic manuscripts
from Bodleian Library (Oxford) that date from 3rd / 4th century of hijra.
The broad conclusions of this study are:

Variants, including shadhdh variants, are
not only marked, but in a sense, highlighted by the use of different coloured
dots.

The presence of shadhdh variants alongside
Seven, Ten or Fourteen Qira'a suggests that the shadhdh variants
were treated as seriously as the main readings by those responsible for
vocalization.

The vocalized manuscript enables us to have some idea of
the reading, or readings, represented. Where there are only single or
limited folios available this is not usually possible, but where there
is either a distinctive feature, or enough of a sufficiently well-vocalized
manuscript, it is often possible to fix the reading with some precision.